Category: Foreign Policy
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Read more: Sauron turns north againIt looks like The Eye of Sauron is turning its gaze north again… The story this week was that the U.S. Administration was putting a “pause” on the longstanding joint Board of Defence. The U.S. undersecretary of…
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Read more: The new U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica?The Trump Administration has finally got around to nominating someone to serve as Ambassador to Jamaica. For most readers, this is probably not significant news. However, as I served there, and retain a deep affection for the…
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Read more: Finland’s president Alexander Stubb has some ideas to save the international order – and ourselvesWith discussions kicking off to determine the next Secretary General of the United Nations, here is a strong argument to pay more attention to the needs of the global south countries.
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Read more: Canada’s Foreign Policy in an Interregnum: From Comfortable Ally to Strategic Middle PowerA timely and thought provoking blog post from Prof. Andy Knight of the University of Alberta from a platform I had not been aware of before…The McLeod Group. by Prof. Andy Knight, University of Alberta April 15,…
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Read more: Incoming…the next phase of Trump’s Hemispheric-focussed National Security StrategyTrump’s ‘Shield of the Americas’ summit in Miami will reinforce U.S. leadership in region By Antonio María Delgado March 6, 2026 President Donald Trump will host leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean in Doral on Saturday…
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Read more: A Valentine from your abuserMaybe it’s just me, but Rubio’s “we belong together”… and we sound so direct “because we care deeply” … to Europe at the Munich Security Conference sounds like a classic abuser gaslighting their victim. He is just…
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Read more: Greenland shows Trump for what he really isHot on the heels of the U.S. military intervention in Venezuela and the extraction of the Maduros to face a U.S. indictment, attention turned to what might be coming next in the role out of the Trump…
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Read more: Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious TrapThis is a good read by David Frum in The Atlantic on the fallout from Trump’s Venezuela action today. Read it here Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap – The Atlantic I have to say…
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Read more: Denmark ‘deeply upset’ by Trump’s appointment of Greenland envoy who wants island to be part of USWTAF! My Danish mother, Danes and hopefully the rest of the free world, are appalled by this. The frightening audacity of an “ally” behaving like this should leave no doubt about the unhinged foreign policy Trump is…